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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

Strategic finance can be thought of as a project management function for your company’s underlying business model or a BizOps team that operates within a more financial lens. Strategic Finance optimizes a company’s underlying business model to create long-term value by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

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Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs and Lightspeed

SaaStr

Grafana Labs Origin Story Grafana Labs started as an open-source project back in 2014 with three co-founders, including Raj. Back then, remote first was a recruiting advantage. How do you drive business around that? All they sold was the visualization layer with no sales team. How did it come to be? Today, not so much.

Scale 291
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How To Structure Your Sales Organization For Maximum Efficiency

Sales Hacker

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. The exchange of value.

Scale 160
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SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint with Bill Macaitis

Tom Tunguz

How do I create the right kind of recruiting process? On November 4, we’ll chat with Kenny van Zant, the creator of high velocity inside sales techniques and flywheel business models. In 2012, Bill became CMO of Zendesk and in 2014, Bill joined Slack as CMO. And we have a great lineup so far.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations. And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps.

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The Sendgrid Journey: Scaling From Growth Stage to $2B Acquisition in 4 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by Twilio in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps.

Scale 147